Word: jehovah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stand stretched across the infield, and huge posters plastered the stadium, bearing messages like Saarnaa Sanaa and Pregetha y gair. They all meant the same thing: "Preach the Word" (II Tim. 4:2). Beneath this slogan, spelled out in 77 tongues, some 77,000 hot, hungry and happy Jehovah's Witnesses had gathered together from 48 states and 68 nations...
...Decisive Battle. Unconventional as its members are, Jehovah's Witnesses is one of the three major worldwide sects (with the Mormons and the Christian Scientists) that can be properly labeled "Made in the U.S.A." Its founder was a thin, smallish Pittsburgh Congregationalist named Charles Taze Russell, who began preaching the second coming of Christ in the 18703, and organized his followers into the Zion's Watch Tower Society. When Russell died, a pontifical, organ-voiced lawyer, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, took over, built the organization into more or less its present form (estimated membership: 300,000), and called...
Somehow the spiritual needs of the prisoners were filled. A Jesuit priest managed to grant absolutions and perform clandestine Mass each day for Roman Catholic prisoners. Lilje and other Protestant pastors wrote meditations and commentaries to be passed around. Among the most heroic were the Jehovah's Wit nesses. Owing to their "absolute love of truth, the Gestapo were glad to use these men in various prisons as informers, for in their love of truth they always went so far that they disregarded all ties of comradeship ... In spite of this, we owe them that respect which we would...
...members of the sect called Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Christ's second coming is at hand. Some Witnesses believe the coming is so imminent that they put off marrying or having children until Armageddon signals the final act. Since all governments will soon be overthrown, the Witnesses do their best to ignore governments. They salute no flag, vote in no election, fight in no war. Their work is to bear witness to the coming Christ, and they do the job by doorbell ringing and by pamphlets, portable phonographs, sound trucks and streetcorner speaking. Like the early Christians...
...Jehovah's Witnesses' world headquarters in Brooklyn, that was an old, old story. Said Milton G. Henschel, one of its top directors: "For years our missionaries have been persecuted wherever there were dictators . . . Our people were among the first thrown into Hitler concentration camps. We are confident that Almighty God will protect our people wherever they are, and that they will continue to preach the Gospel...